The purpose of this meeting is to bring together experts in obesity, metabolism, and lung disease to develop collaborations, foster research initiatives, guide clinical care, and extend knowledge related to the impacts of obesity and metabolism on lung health.
The focused presentations by leaders in the field of obesity, metabolism, and lung disease, followed by discussions and poster sessions with senior and junior investigators will conclude with a published meeting report to review the current state of knowledge pertaining to the effects of obesity on lung disease.
Our ultimate goal is to identify research priorities to guide patient care in the 21st
Century.
PROGRAM ORGANIZERS:
Anne E. Dixon, MA, BM, BCh - UVM
Benjamin T. Suratt, MD - UVM
Stephanie Shore, PhD - Harvard
Ross Summer, MD - T. Jefferson University
SUPPORTED BY:
The Vermont Lung Center,
UVM College of Medicine, and
Unrestricted Educational Grants from:
Actelion
Gilead
Astra-Zeneca
NIH
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Registration Fee:
Attendee: $175.00
Trainee: $80.00
To register or request more information, please visit our website: www.uvm.edu/medicine/cme/?Page=obesity.html
The University of Vermont College of
Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
UVM designates this live activity for a maximum of 15.25 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This meeting is endorsed by the
American Thoracic Society
PULMONARY & CRITICAL
CARE MEDICINE
Phone: 802-656-2292
UVM Davis Center
500 Main Street
Burlington VT 05405

AN EMERGING FRONTIER IN
LUNG HEALTH & DISEASE
Janice B. Allen, PhD - NIEHS The emerging role of environmental exposures in the obesity/asthma axis
Jason Bates, PhD - UVM - The mechanical consequences of obesity on airway responsiveness
Stephen Black, PhD – University of Arizona -
Role of the mitochondrion in pulmonary vascular disease
Konstantin G. Birukov, MD, PhD - University of Chicago - Oxidized phospholipids in lung injury and inflammation: friend or foe?
Augustine Choi, MD - Weill Cornell Medical
College - Mitochondrial dysfunction: Regulator of inflammation and cell death in lung disease
Anne Dixon, MA, BM, BCh - UVM
Phenotypes of asthma in obesity
Michael B. Fessler, MD - National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences – A novel role for oxysterol in resolution of lung inflammation and critical illness
Fernando Holguin, MD, MPH - U Pittsburgh
Obesity, metabolic dysregulation, and airway oxidative stress
Manu Jain, MD - Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species regulate
TGF-β signaling
Benjamin Marsland, PhD - University of
Lausanne – Implication of host-microbe interactions in development of respiratory diseases
Meredith McCormack , MD, MHS - Johns
Hopkins Univ - Obesity, diet and airway disease
Evangelos Michelakis, MD - University of
Alberta- Metabolic theory of pulmonary hypertension
Yury Miller, MD, PhD - University of California,
San Diego - Targeted cholesterol efflux and inflammation
Ana Mora, MD - University of Pittsburgh
Dysfunctional mitochondria in lung fibrosis
Viswanathan Natarajan, PhD - Univ of IL at
Chicago - Lysocardiolipin acyltransferase, a mitochondrial cardiolipin remodeling enzyme, in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis
Irina Petrache, MD - National Jewish Health -
Metabolic derangements in COPD
Deepa Rastogi, MD - Albert Einstein College of
Medicine – Metabolic dysregulation and pediatric obesity-related asthma
Kelan Tantisira, MD, MPH - Channing Lab,
Harvard Medical School - Circulating miRNA in asthma and obesity
Stephanie A. Shore, PhD - Harvard School of
Public Health - Obesity and asthma: microbiomemetabolome interactions
Ross Summer, MD - Thomas Jefferson University
- Dysregulated lipid synthesis promotes fibrotic responses in the lung
Benjamin T. Suratt, MD - UVM
Hypercholesterolemia and the ‘priming’ of the lung for disease
Burlington Waterfront
Vermont in the fall
What could be lovelier? The newly built Davis
Center on the University of Vermont campus overlooks Burlington and the shores of Lake
Champlain, the sixth largest freshwater lake in the
U.S. The area offers great shopping and excellent restaurants. ECHO at the Leahy Center has fun learning activities on the ecology, history and culture of Lake Champlain. Historic Shelburne
Farms and the Shelburne Museum, an eclectic collection of Americana, are a 30-minute drive.
Within an hour's drive are the Ben & Jerry's Ice
Cream Factory, UVM Morgan Horse Farm, and the world's largest granite quarry.
Accommodations
A block of rooms is reserved at the Sheraton Hotel
& Conference Center, an AAA, 3-Diamond hotel with indoor pool, fitness center and superb continental cuisine. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel, 1-802-865-6600 (1-800-
325-3535) or through our registration web page prior to Sept 14, 2015 to receive special rates
($169.00 per day single to quad occupancy).
Rooms cannot be guaranteed after September 14 th .
Transportation
The Burlington International Airport is served by several major airlines. Auto rentals are available at the airport, but should be reserved in advance.
Complimentary hotel shuttle service is available upon request.
Burlington is an easy 4-hour drive from Boston, just 1.5 hours from Montreal, and 7 hours from
New York City. The Sheraton/Burlington exit is
14-W on Interstate 89.